May 19, 1866

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Features

Improved Scraper, Improved Wagon Brake, and more

A New Intensifying and Toning Agent

Items for Lovers of Gardening

How Fishhooks Are Made

New England Industry

Lutes's Washing Machine

A Visit to the Oswego Starch Works

The Beaumont Condensing Tea and Coffee Pot

Special Notices

White's Churn

Taxing Inventors--An Unjust Measure

Disinfectants and the Cholera

Supplement

Perpetual Motion

The Failure of the Machinery of the New Screw Fleet

Tax for Equalizing Bounties

Polytechnic Association of the American Institute

To Our Readers

Patent Claims

Issued from the U. S. Patent Office

Remington's Watch Key

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Correspondence

New Inventions

Notes and Queries

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